Kent Farrington in Jumping, Boyd Martin in Eventing and Kate Shoemaker in Para Dressage maintained their thrid place positions in World Rankings while McLain Ward stands seventh in Jumping.

Kent Farrington on Landon (Photo by Sarah Miller)Kent Farrington held on to third place for second month in a row, with 3119 points behind Henrik von Eckermann of Sweden, who maintained his position at the top of the Rankings for yet another month with 3386 points.

Second-placed rider, Ben Maher of Great Britain has narrowed to just 136 points, the smallest lead for the Swede in recent months.

In just one month, Britain’s Ben Maher has reduced the difference with Swedish leader by 258 points, thanks to impressive performances including a second-place finish in the Madrid leg of the FEI Jumping World Cup.

Swiss riders Steve Guerdat with 3037 points and Martin Fuchs with 2945 points switched positions in the fourth and fifth places, respectively.

The same goes for Julien Epaillard with 2928 points and McLain Ward with 2895 points, who occupy the sixth and seventh positions, while Simon Delestre of France and Max Kühner of Austria) maintained their eighth and ninth positions, with 2754 and 2740 points respectively, and Shane Sweetnam of Ireland closed the top 10, climbing one position with 2715 points.

 

IN FEI EVENTING World Rider Ranking, Great Britain continues to dominate the Top Ten with Oliver Townend leading the pack for the third consecutive month with the same 569 points he had a month ago.

As has been customary in recent months, the British contingent boasts seven athletes within the Top 10.

Alongside Townend, Rosalind Canter closely follows in second place with 546 points, Tom McEwen in fourth, Harry Meade in fifth, Piggy March in sixth, Wills Oakden in seventh, and Laura Collett in tenth.

The only non-British riders in the Top 10 are the Boyd Martin in third place, Tim Price of New Zealand in ninth place, and the standout in the December ranking, the Frenchman Maxime Livio, who climbed nine positions to secure eighth place.

Rihards Snikus of Latvia continues to lead the Para Dressage Rankings, a position he earned a few months ago, with 1678 points.

Sara Morganti of Italy held on to second on 1630 points, while Kate Shoemaker remained in third.

In the Team Ranking, the Netherlands still dominated the leaderboard with a total of 1327 points.

The USA is now second with 1321 points, while Germany follows closely on 1313 points.

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